B17B Iceberg Disintegrates Trigger Shipping Alert in Australia

by OldSailor on December 16, 2009

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The massive iceberg B17B, that is moving towards Australia triggered a shipping alert on December 11. Now the iceberg has started thinning and slowly disintegrating into more smaller icebergs as the water warms up.

Some information available on B17B iceberg are:

B17B calved from the eastern end of the Ross Ice Shelf almost a decade ago, along with several other massive icebergs.